--- title: "Built-in refrigerators & columns" description: "Thermador built-in refrigerators & columns: a Freedom column is one cabinet holding one temperature — all refrigerator, no freezer in it — usually…" url: "https://thermadormiami.support/appliances/refrigerator/" date_modified: "2026-08-19" Appliance type: "Built-in refrigerators & columns" --- # Thermador built-in refrigerators & columns ### One cabinet, one temperature Columns are bought in pairs and fail one at a time. If the fridge column is warm, its freezer neighbor being perfect tells you nothing about it — they share a kitchen and nothing else. ### What actually goes wrong - **Not holding temperature.** On a column there is no freezer next door to blame and no shared air path to check, which makes the diagnosis cleaner: it is this cabinet, its evaporator, its fan or its seal. - **Frost or condensation inside.** Usually the door rather than the cooling — a seal that stopped meeting the frame squarely after the panel was rehung will do it. - **A door that no longer seals against its panel.** The hinges are set for the weight of your cabinetry. Add a heavier panel, or rehang it a few millimeters out, and the door stops closing true. - **Warm at the top, cold at the bottom.** Air distribution, which in a tall single-temperature cabinet is a fan and a duct rather than a damper. ### Columns are bought in pairs and go wrong one at a time If the refrigerator column is warm, its freezer neighbor being perfect tells you nothing about it. They share a kitchen, a pair of panels and nothing else — separate sealed systems, separate controls. It is worth saying which of the two is misbehaving, and whether the other one is, because that is the first thing we would otherwise ask. Freedom columns · French door · Under-counter Refrigerator repair Not holding temperature Frost or condensation inside the cabinet A door that no longer seals against its panel One cabinet, one temperature Columns are bought in pairs and fail one at a time. If the fridge column is warm, its freezer neighbor being perfect tells you nothing about it — they share a kitchen and nothing else. What actually goes wrong Not holding temperature. On a column there is no freezer next door to blame and no shared air path to check, which makes the diagnosis cleaner: it is this cabinet, its evaporator, its fan or its seal. Frost or condensation inside. Usually the door rather than the cooling — a seal that stopped meeting the frame squarely after the panel was rehung will do it. A door that no longer seals against its panel. The hinges are set for the weight of your cabinetry. Add a heavier panel, or rehang it a few millimeters out, and the door stops closing true. Warm at the top, cold at the bottom. Air distribution, which in a tall single-temperature cabinet is a fan and a duct rather than a damper. Columns are bought in pairs and go wrong one at a time If the refrigerator column is warm, its freezer neighbor being perfect tells you nothing about it. They share a kitchen, a pair of panels and nothing else — separate sealed systems, separate controls. It is worth saying which of the two is misbehaving, and whether the other one is, because that is the first thing we would otherwise ask. --- **[Read full article: Built-in refrigerators & columns](https://thermadormiami.support/appliances/refrigerator/)**